Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The policies advocated by the welfare school remove the incentive to saving on the part of private citizens. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
...this remedy is the power of the citizens; they have to prevent the establishment of such an autocratic regime that arrogates to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
This is the difference between slavery and freedom. The slave must do what his superior orders him to do, but the free… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Within the market society each serves all his fellow citizens and each is served by them. It is a system of mutual… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required (think stimulus) by taxing the citizens or by borrowing… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates himself peacefully into the social order.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Violent resistance against the power of the state is the last resort of the minority in its effort to break loose from… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Government force is derived from the sum of the physical force each citizen could exert which by one citizen himself would be… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The goal of liberalism is the peaceful cooperation of all men. It aims at peace among nations too. When there is private… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
History does not provide any example of capital accumulation brought about by a government. As far as governments invested in the construction… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The market economy is the social system of the division of labor under private ownership of the means of production. Everybody acts… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Whether we like it or not, it is a fact that economics cannot remain an esoteric branch of knowledge accessible only to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly "progressive" policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks of economics whether he is aware of it or not. In joining a political party or in casting his ballot,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
Changes in human conditions are brought about by the pioneering of the cleverest and most energetic men. They take the lead and the rest… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
“How little one is justified in speaking in this connection of "optimism" and "pessimism" and how much the characterization of liberalism as "optimistic" aims… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to their social… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life;… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
